When sudden chest discomfort strikes, it’s natural to panic. Is it a heart attack or just harmless gas? The two conditions ...

Expert doctors in infectious disease and lung health speak to the transmissibility of walking pneumonia and more infection ...

First, incorporate stair-specific exercises into your workout routine to train your body for the stimulus. Exercises such as ...

Angina and heart attack both feature chest pain, but they have different causes and levels of urgency. Learn about the signs ...

Summer brings unique challenges for patients with COPD. Learn how rising temperatures and humidity affect symptoms and what ...

Shortness of breath is one of the most common side effects after open-heart surgery. It can last for weeks or months, but symptoms typically improve over time. Open heart surgery can restore your ...

That causes shortness of breath. Severe COPD can cause heart failure in your heart’s lower right chamber, or ventricle. This is a condition called right-sided heart failure or cor pulmonale.

You have shortness of breath, or dyspnea, when you have a hard time breathing. You may notice tightness in your chest, or feel like you're suffocating. If it's new or can't be explained ...

A new study published in the journal of BMC Pulmonary Medicine showed that dyspnea (mMRC score 1.67), symptom load (CAT score 10.24), and exacerbations were considerably greater in frail patients with ...

Dry Cough Home Remedy: Some diseases are friends of your body... Yes, whenever there is any problem in the body, these diseases are there to cure it. Cough and cold are similar diseases (a ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) notes that people assigned female at birth are more likely than people assigned male at birth to also experience: nausea dizziness shortness of breath back or ...

Meta-analysis revealed an overall pooled prevalence of dyspnea of 43% (95% prediction interval, 0.07-0.84). Variations did occur, depending on the type of cancer. For example, lung cancer has a ...